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Poll Results Mixed For Mexico's PRI

After Nearly a Decade on Sidelines, Party Does Well in State Elections

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Paul Kiernan and

Nicholas Casey

Updated July 6, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

MEXICO CITY—Mexico's former ruling party won a majority of states up for grabs in weekend elections, but its losses in three bastions left analysts questioning the party's momentum as it hopes to retake the presidency in 2012.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which governed Mexico for 71 years until 2000, won nine of 12 states that elected new governors on Sunday, according to preliminary results. It picked up three...